Maestero, the marriage, really? [Media Notes 102b]

I feel I’ve got to say a bit more about Maestro, as my previous post said a lot about Bernstein the musician, but little about his marriage to Felicia Montealegre. This conversation between Bradley Cooper and Steven Spielberg, who produced the film (along with five others), goes through all that.

At about 4:16 Spielberg say that this is not a standard biopic, which is what he would have done if he’d directed:

This is an anatomy of a marriage and also an anatomy ...